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ing that " the men so impressed be com- modiously provided, as has formerly been the practice, with 1000 red coats faced with blue." Attached to this order is a table which implies that the colour of the soldiers' coats varied according to the counties to which they belonged ; but, unfortunately, the column headed ' Colour of Coats ' is .not filled up. H. C. S.

Cromwell dressed the soldiers he sent to .assist France against Spain in red uniforms ; and Major-General Morgan, their com- mander, in his account of the Battle of the Dunes and the capture of Dunkirk, refers to them as " the red -coats."

HOWARD S. PEARSON.

In the accounts of the Churchwardens of ,St. Helen's, Abingdon, 1644-5 :

"It. Pd for making 14 graves for 14 of ye Lieu- tent. Coll. souldiers of ye redcoats, Is."

R. J. FYNMORE.

ROBIN HOOD ROMANCES (11 S. viii. 203). MR. W. A. FROST might be interested in Martin Parker's 'True Tale of Robbin Hoodj' in verse, published in 1632, and reprinted in Child's ' Collection of Ballads ' ; and in the anonymous ' History of George ^a Green,' dated 1706, but running back to an earlier period, reprinted in Thoms's he cares for foreign literature on the subject, he should see the Dumas romances ' Robin Hood, le Proscrit,' and ' Le Prince des Toleurs.'
 * Collection of Early Prose Romances.' If

In the field of drama he will find the Robin Hood story often retold from the fragment dating from before the year 1475, reprinted by Child, down to Alfred Noyes's ' Sherwood ' of 1911. I have myself col- lected much information concerning Robin Hood in the drama, and my list of works includes numerous plays, masques, operas, extravaganzas, &c., many of them anony- mous, but many also known by their authors' names. Among these authors are Greene ( ?), Peele, Munday, Chettle, Jonson, Arne and Burney(?), M. Mendes, F. G. Waldron, L. MacNallv, O'Keeffe, J. Hodgkinson, R. Lacy, J. R. Planche, G. Linley, E. Fitzball, J. Oxenford, F. C. Burnand, R. Reece, F. Hall, H. B. Smith, and Tennyson. To the drama, moreover, we are indebted for a by no means unimportant feature in the development of the Robin Hood story as we know it to-day, for it is, I believe, in the anonymous play ' Looke about You,' printed in 1600, and in Munday's * Downfall

of Robert, Earle of Huntington,' and Munday and Chettle' s ' Death of Robert, Earle of Huntington,' both published in 1601, that we have early, if not our earliest, presentations in literature of Robin Hood as a man of noble birth.

H. G. EMERY. Philadelphia.

SMUGGLING QUERIES (11 S.viii. 209, 257). MR. BAYLEY is quite correct. The word " skellum " was in the time of the Civil War particularly applied to the character of Sir Richard Grenville (d. 1658). " A True relation of a brave defeat given by the forces in Plimouth to Skellum Green vile " is the title of a tract in the Grenville Library at the British Museum. It is stated in the ' D.N.B.' that " Parliament proclaimed him traitor, rogue, villain, and skellum."

Grenville is so called in Nehemiah Wal- lington's ' Historical Occurrences,' ii. 253, 255, but the editor was unacquainted with his appellation, and at the first of these refer- ences she queried the expression "Skellum Grenville " as possibly an error for Sir Kenelm Grenville. W. P. COURTNEY.

Sir Richard Grenville, younger brother of Sir Beville Grenville, and one of Charles I.'s generals in the Western campaign, which ended in February, 1646, was so detested by the Parliamentarians, whose cause he had originally espoused, that his name was seldom mentioned in their contemporary journals without the prefix " Skellum," signifying renegade or villain.

ALFRED F. ROBBINS.

SEVER OF MERTON: BISHOP "SEVER" OF DURHAM (11 S. viii. 181,238, 276). The areer of Bishop William "Sever," under the surname ' Senhouse.'
 * D.N.B.' contains a useful summary of the

Born at Shincliffe, he entered the Bene- dictine Order. On 11 March, 1467/8, he was ordained sub -deacon in St. Mary's Abbey, York, where he became abbot in 1485. He was elected Bishop of Carlisle in 1489, and was consecrated in the following year. He died in 1505, and was buried at St. Mary's Abbey, York. (The 'D.N.B.' gives a list of references. )

In ' Symeon of Durham,' in the list of the Bishops of Durham, occurs the following :

" [Date of election] 1502 [name] William Senewze [date] dies mensis 15 Octobris, Anni Christi 1502 [duration] Anni 2 vel 3 [death] Dies Mensis 14 Maii, prius translatus a sede Carleolensi ad ecclesiam Dunelmensem, et etiam per litteras patentes Henrici vii reeis, anno regni sui 18. die 14 Maii, Anni Christi 1505."